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SOCIETY 122 Membership Application 122 SIP Leadership 123 Editor's Notes 124 Letters to the Editor 158 President's Column 159 Chapter News 159 New Members

II Forerunner

130 Taxed Mail of the Ottoman Period E. Leibu

Ill Mandate

148 Palestine Small Town Postmarks Dr. Mel Richmond z"l

II JNF

151 Yitzhak Rabin (Rubitzov) Moshe Kol Kalman

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Interim Period 128 Earliest Menorah Club Cover

Robert B. Piles, M.D.

Holocaust 136 The "Magic" of the Holocaust

Gregg Philipson

Judaica 140 Jewish Welfare Board Cards

Dr. Cary Finder 150 The Synagogue of Pees,

Hungry Gene Bissen

154 Peace Prize Winners Silviu Landman

160 Famous Farmers of America Richard Barson, Donald A. Chafetz

II Israel

126 Judea and Samaria Health Service Arthur Harris

134 Doar lvri Gems Selwyn Uria

142 Modern Israel Philately Adam Caplan

INDEX OF ADVERTISERS American Israel Numismatic Assoc

146 Briar Road Company 146 Classified ads 153 Doron Waide 157 Endowment Campaign 2012 145 House of Zion 134 Ideal Stamp Co., Inc. 133 Israel Philatelic Agency 139 ofNorth America

Mosden Trading Company 146 Negev Holyland Stamps 129 Ottoman and Near East Philatelic Society 153 Romano House of Stamps Ltd. 147 SIP Educational Fund Publications 146

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Tel Aviv Stamps 127

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William M. Rosenblum Rare Coins 153

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Editor's Notes Donald A. Chafetz

Guest editorial by jesse I. Spector, Berkshire Hills S.I.P.

NoN-PHILATELIC, PHILATELIC ARTICLE As I read the most recent of a seemingly endless stream of doomsday letters about the impending demise of our hobby, the thought crossed my mind-you know, maybe they are right. Well now, that kind of thinking can be a real downer, but what to do if it's true? I mean most of us have our heads buried in the sand, and it's unrealistic coming up with ideas that don't fit with reality. I realize that another letter to the editor can be like using a teabag over for the fourth time-it really loses something in the taste; so I'd better have something to say-maybe not the answer, but something meaningful to impart.

BACKGROUND

I have the typical credentials of a lot of stamp enthusiasts. I collected United States commemoratives and first day covers as a kid, and then as I got involved with high school, college work and cars, I put my stamps aside and went on to these other critical endeavors, convinced that someday my collection would bring me a fortune.

Then, also, there are those of you who never took a hiatus from your collecting spirit-maybe cars and school weren't your thing, or, maybe you found time for all of the above; but, whatever, you kept on collecting. Some of you really got our envy up when we read about you in Linns Stamp News having sold your fifth or eighth complete collection for three million dollars at Christies, London. Yes, somehow seeing your smiling face holding a billboard-sized facsimile of the real check didn't quite warm our hearts as much as that of your trust-fund advisor.

Anyway, regardless of which mold you fit-the fair weather collector who took up the hobby once again decades later or if you never gave up the hobby, there does come a moment of introspection when you think of things like: (a) what will it be like when I'm no longer here; or (b) what will happen to my collection if there are no more collectors?

Yes, these are the dilemmas we face if our hobby goes belly up. And make no bones about it, that eventuality may come to fruition. You see, bad things are possible.

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CuRRENT SITUATION So now to my main point: the postal service has decided to go modern, that is, for as long as it hangs on as a viable entity. The material it offers, while voluminous in quantity, is mostly without saving grace. Since the producer of our life blood has given in to artistic nihilism we are stuck with the preceding nineteenth and half of the twentieth century product-material that has all the attraction for our younger generation as last year's 1-phone model.

Force-feeding a new generation will not be the answer. Yes, there will always be younger folks who will derive the same pleasure we do and are stewarded into the hobby through individuals, dubs and really good programs catering to them at stamp shows. My idea is a bit different though. It's a reflection of our Berkshire SIP chapter activities that seems to work.

BERKSHIRE MEETINGS

We meet once a month on Sunday morning. We don't meet in a Temple basement room rather, we are fortunate to have the use of the hall of renowned philatelist Bob Markov its's house. We schmooze over bagels and coffee. We start at w:w am and quit at noon. Our schedule allows us to not schlep home from an evening meeting.

We have several members who have lovingly collected extensive philatelic material and ephemera related to the Levant, including all aspects of Forerunner, Palestine and Israel collecting, yielding endless, pleasurable programs. European and United States philately are also discussed, distinct yet invigorating. We have members who do not collect in these areas but collect other areas of philately, or are not collectors at all. They love to participate, learn and enjoy the philately, art and history. One does not have to sign a pledge to "collect the right thing."

A topic is chosen for each meeting allowing folks to go through their material. We also utilize the excellent, free SIP down-loadable slide presentations with accompanying crib-sheets. No professorship required to do a great presentation.

Finally, you might have guessed that some of us like to write. I do postal history writing and am an Associate Editor for La Posta (American postal history journal). Fellow club members generously make available

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letters to the Editor Hello Don

I had read your interesting magazine, but I have two remarks.

Not only did Mr. Les Glassman win in Indonesia, but our CEFAT magazine won a Silver medal in Literature. It was the only Judaica magazine.

On page 84, Lisbon is the capital of Portugal, not Spain. In Lisbon the American Joint Distribution Committee had this postal address.

And last, but not least, you indicated you need articles. I have sent you two articles and I'm wriUng some for our next issue of CEFAI that will appear in OctoberNovember and you can select either of them. If you need any translated into English, please write me.

Chatima Tova leKulchem. Shana Tova umetuka Roberto Brzostowski, Argentina •

Dear Don:

Recently the Palestine Study Group discussed your editorial in the February 2012 issue of "The Israel Philatelist." While we respect your personal opinions of the Palestine periods as being "uninspiring and dull" and "boring and monotonous," we do not find it as such. We actually think the reverse.

We look at each stamp as an item to be examined and studied. We appreciate the efforts of individuals and groups that have researched these stamps and have produced a multitude of articles and books. Apparently they did not find their work uninspiring, dull, boring or monotonous.

Stamp collectors may choose to want the latest next stamp issue and find satisfaction with filling in a space or find enjoyment of looking at a collection of many stamps that have color or variety. A philatelist, we believe, looks at stamps differently. While you may delight in looking at all those artistic stamp designs, we delight in more than just looking. The story of each

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stamp, the knowledge of why stamps that appear to be similar but are different delights us.

We believe exhibitors feel as we do. Otherwise, all they would have to exhibit are pages of "artistic" stamps. Would "The Israel Philatelist" be more enjoyable if each issue had only "attractive stamps" shown?

We greatly appreciate your work on The Israel

Philatelist and look forward to each information filled issue. Reviewing your commentary that discusses your increasing knowledge of illustrating, perhaps you should consider providing some designs that could have been, but remembering that the days past are not the days of today. Now there are computers; then there were none. Automobiles, airplanes, buildings then were different. They are not as artistic as today's stamps, but they are revered by many.

Irwin Math New Jersey For the Palestine Study Group •

Dear Don

I truly enjoyed Mr. Lehavy's article concerning International Mail to Palestine/Israel and look forward

to more of his research. I found it very informative, but must question two areas.

In the section on Normal Mail Routes, he indicates that one of the "latest postal administrations that resumed mail services to Israel was Singapore", using the date of 14 September, 1948. According to the magazine Holy

Land Postal History, (HLPH) Vol. 8, pages 353 through 362, many countries signed postal agreements well into 1949, one of the last being Morocco on the 27th of March, 1949. I also find it odd nor do I understand the need for the agreement to name individual places inside the country in that, once the mail reached Haifa, it would have entered the Israeli mail stream. From lhe HLPH reference, there appears to have been 122 agreements that covered 108 distinct jurisdictions (in some cases such as the United States there were two agreements, one for surface mail and one for air mail). The second, I believe is a typo in that all my sources indicate that Israel was accepted into the U.P.U. on the 24th of December, 1949, not 1948.

Dick Herman South Florida Chapter of the S.I.P. Delray Beach, FL •

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Dear Don

Thanks for your note regarding my article in the June 2012 issue, p. 114. I would like to respond to Mr. Heman's comments.

1. Yes, Israel was admitted to the U.P.U. on December 24, 1949 and not 1948. My typo, I am sorry. I should have checked my article before submitting.

2. Of course Singapore was not the only postal authority that resumed mail to Israel, The point apparently was not emphasized enough;

First, the resumption was to Palestine. It should have been Israel.

Second, the selection was only 15 post offices and among them Kefar Vitkin a small agricultural village with a population of only 1,ooo while larger towns and villages were not selected. I was wondering what was the criteria for the selection.

Third, the intent of the article was not to document resumption of mail but rather the resumption of mail to "Palestine."

I am glad that members are reading the articles. As a writer I like feedback. I am in the process of writing another article. It takes a lot of thought. I hope it will be done within three weeks.

Happy New Year. Yechiel Lehavy Margate City, NJ •

Dear Don, Another beautiful issue of The Israel Philatelist! On page 103 a good article about the Ukrainian nationalist Simon Petlyura. It should have included a stamp issued by the newly independent Ukraine on 5/21/2004 commemorating the death of this rabid antiSemite! The stamp is catalogued in Scott No. 547.

You may make this addition in the next issue !

Best wishes for the Holidays, Silviu Landman Fort Lee, N J •


Editor's note: Mr. Harris is referring to his article on page 126. He

received an advance copy to proof read. •

Hi Don,

I was so impressed with how you made my article look. My layout skills and scanning limitations are apparent. Anyway you motivated me to submit another revenue article on the service fee revenue series, the agrah sherutim. If you have any questions, suggestions or comments, please feel free to let me know.

1 would love to do additional articles on driving lesson revenue stamps, attorney/lawyer revenue stamps or perhaps an update on the border crossing/bridge stamps for the West Bank and Gaza/Sinai territories. The latter does not have much information available - only what is listed in Wallerstein 1987 and that is incomplete. (As you can probably tell, I specialize in Israel revenues).

Thanks again for all yoLu· help and I look forward to hearing from you.

Arthur Harris Valley Stream, NY •

Don, we have been considering your recent ideas for swapping ads and articles. The Israel Philatelist tends to be more focused than The Levant, so, as we have done twice over the past years, we're more likely to reprint one of your articles than the other way around. However, I will (attempt to) send you a list of our articles about a month before J publish each season, and if any of them interest you, I can send you a copy. As for swap ads, this is obviously a good notion. I have prepared a quarterpage advert for ONEPS (see p. 134) and I look forward to receiving your ad. Cheers, Richard Rose •

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excellent material that would otherwise not be available to me, leading to the writing of articles reviewed at our meetings and published. As they say at the Academy Awards: "without them I would not be standing here today."

And every so often a friend joins us on a Sunday morning, has a great time and becomes another one of the group. Low key, good food and lots of kibitzing. Having both grey heads and younger folks gives us staying poweranother means for sustaining our beloved hobby.


Revenue Stamps

Judea and Samaria Health Service Arthur Harris, Valley Stream, NY

T oward the latter part of April 1973, the military government for Judea and Samaria issued a health stamp with the denomination of 6 IL. The stamps were printed on unwatermarked paper and

were perforated 14 x 14. The Hebrew at the top of the stamp reads "Health Service" and at the bottom "Judea and Samaria Region;" and are repeated in Arabic on the right and left sides. The Zahal emblem appears in the upper left of the inner frame. The 6 IL fee (Figure 1) was charged for medical services, which was similar to j oining a health plan.

In July or August of 1976, the health service rate was changed to 15 IL and the 6 IL was overprinted to reflect tnis change (Figure 2).

OvERPRINT VARIETIES Over the years, numerous denomination overprints appeared on the o T T ., i ncl11d ing: 8o ag/6 IL (Figure 3); 5 sh/6 IL (Figure 4); 5 shekel in Hebrew/61L (Figures); 11 sh/6 IL (Figure 6); so sh/6 IL (Figure 7); 100 sh in Hebrew/6 IL (Figure 8). These exist with inverted overprints, partial and/or missing overprints and there may be additional values that are unrecorded such as the 8 o ag/6 IL.

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[unlike the other overprint the word shekel is not written in

full but merely the "s")

New SERIES At either the end of 1985 or the beginning of 1986, a new series of Health Service stamps were introduced. Their values are in the New Shekel format. They were printed in sheets of -to-eight horizontal rows by five vertical columns. This series replaced the previous two and was also printed on unwatermarked paper and perforated 14 x 14. According lo Wallerstein's 1987 Specialized Catalogue of Palestine and Israel Revenues, "they were issued in very small villages where there was no electricity available and where cash receipt machines were not available."

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The inscriptions on this new series and the Zahal insignia are identical to the previous two series. The background color and the inscription colors are the same. There are discrepancies in the Wallerstein listings. To date, four values have been identified: the 0.50 in blue; the o.8o in orange; the 1 NIS in red; and the 2 NISin blue (the same as the o.so).

INFORMATION REQUEST If there are any additional overprints on the first two series or any additional values on the third series, scans would be appreciated as I am attempting to update the Health Service series in addition to other revenue issues. If any SIP members have additional information, please contact me through the South Florida SIP chapter or by e-mail to [email protected]. •

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Earliest Menorah Club Cover Robert B Pildes M.D.,Evanston, IL

The cover (Figures 1 and 2) was sent by one of the drivers, a soldier, who arrived in Jerusalem on the last

convoy on the 19th of April, 1948. The siege of Jerusalem started on April 20, 1948. The cover is addressed to his girl friend in Tel Aviv whom he subsequently married. The cover is franked with a 10 mils Palestine Mandate stamp (Bale catalog #97, Scott catalog ;t 73) tied to the cover by a Mandate Tel Aviv double circle cancellation dated 27 AP 48 (Figure 3). This is the earliest recorded mail from the besieged city ofJerusalerr: to arrive in Tel Aviv. It is not known if it was flown out of Jerusalem on a HAGANA plane or carried by courier, or who franked and posted the cover. Franking was absolutely necessary as the British Mandate Post was still operating.

LETTER CONTENTS The cover contained a 2 page handwritten letter which was translated for me through the courtesy of Yacov Tsachor. Part of it states the following: "We idle away all day long, and there is nothing to do in the evening so we go to sleep . . . . We don't have a penny . . . today we got entry permits to the Menorah Club .. .. an entertainment club for soldiers. There's a radio, a gramophone, magazines, comic books, newspapers, and library . . . a bar with soda drinks, but we can't buy anything for financial reasons . . .. 1hey have a special desk for writings letters, and they send the letters the following day, either by convoy or by airplane, which lands not too far from here . . . just heard that a convoy is due to leave tomorrow and this letter will arrive with that convoy."

THE FLAP The flap on the reverse (Figure 2) states: "New address for letters and parcels: Menorah Club, Jerusalem, for Haim Talit." It is of interest that Tsac!lor personally interviewed the writer of this letter and has written a certificate of authenticity for it.

CovER HISTORY How this letter came to be an important part of


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the philatelic history of the transition period is also interesting. Marvin Siegel (z"l), a well known Bronx , ew York dealer in Israel philately who had written many authoritative articles on Palestinian and Israeli postal history brought this cover to me. He would go to Israel regularly every year as he had a residence there. Somehow, he did not tell me how, he learned the name of the Israeli truck driver and where he lived. He went


there to discuss more of the events of that time with him. While they were talking, the former soldier's wife brought out this cover with this letter to show Marvin. He was astonished and told her he wanted to buy the letter and explained to her its historical significance. She was adamant not to give it up because of sentimental reasons. Note that this is occurring in 1993 and she had saved it all these years. He cajoled her for several hours before she was willing to part with it.

When Marvin sold it to me, he made me promise not to tell anyone that I had obtained the cover from him because he had relations with many Israeli collectors of the 1948 Transition Period material. I believe he offered it to me because he was interested in helping me develop another significant collection as many Israeli collectors already had important Transition Period collections. Over the years he did help me. Since Marvin is now deceased, I feel that I am now able to tell the history of this philatelic important cover in the story of the siege of Jerusalem.

BooK REFERENCE

An additional aspect of the importance and scarcity of this cover is found in the definitive work The Postal

History Of The Transition Period Of 1948 published by the Society of the Postal History of Eretz Israel. The book has an illustration of a Menorah Club Cover sent to Kibbutz Ganigar. They comment that the cover is the "Earliest known and the only one reported with a Mandate stamp and postmark." It has a Mandate Tel Aviv double circle cancellation dated 5 May 1948• and a 10 mils Mandate stamp. The reporting mistake about the earliest dated cover may represent my supposition above about not mentioning the cover since Marvin Siegel had a business relationship with all three authors. Reference:

I. Shimony, Zvi, Yeremiyaha Rimon and ltimar Karpovsky, Vol

II . The Emergency, Local and Private Postal Services. Part I. Jerusalem and Safad Postal Services in the Transition Period,

Jerusalem 2004, p. 140-l. •

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Ottoman eriod E. Leibu, Haifa, Israel Editor's note: The article or iginally appeared as a 5 part series in the Holy Land Postal History journal, vols. 53-59, 1993-1994. The illustrations are copies of copies and are not very sharp or clear.

The Austrian Post Office The Austrian Post carried a large part of the mail from and to the Holy Land.

This was due to several reasons: 1. An efficient, punctual and reliable service. 2. A wide-spread network of post offices through the

Levant. 3· At the period, Austro-Hungary covered a large part

of central Europe. 4· Good co-operation with other post offices, and as

a result the handling of a large volume of inbound mail.

5· Special arrangements with the Jewish community, e.g. agents in the colonies, free mail privilege, etc.

Consequently, we can find today more items taxed by the Austrian Post than by any other service. It seems that the employees worked "by the book" and each item that had to be taxed was properly treated. This does not mean that taxed mail of the Austrian P.O. is commonit is not. I find Norman Collins' statement', . . . every sale with Holy Land seems to have one or more covers or cards w ith Postage Dues included . . . , to be somewhat misleading. From my experience of searching and collecting this material for many years I can say that unless an important collection is broken up, taxed items of this office are far from being easy to acquire. On the other hand, enough material exists to enable us

to develope the subject, and to elaborate on its various aspects. Such aspects are the postage due stamps (the two Issues and the different printings), taxation at the three offices (Jaffa, Jerusalem and Haifa), rates and the reasons for taxation.

THE PosTAGE DuE STAMPS

THE 1902 IssuE The postage dues stamps for the Austrian Levant were issued on January 1, 1902-several years later than for Austria. Until that date dues on taxed mail were collected in cash.

The first issue was printed from the same plates as those used for the domestic postage due stamps. The color was, however, changed from brown to green with the denomination in Ottoman currency overprinted in black. Five values were issued: 10 paras, 20 paras, 1, 2 and 5 piasters. This issue remained valid to the end of 1908.

THE 1908/10 ISSUE In mid 1908, with the issue of a further postage due set in Austria, a new set was also issued for the Levant. The Levant issue differs from that of Austria again by the color, which is green instead of carmine of the domestic issue, and by the values which are in piasters. The issue consists of nine denominations: \4, Y2, 1, 2, 5, 10, 20 and 30 piasters. The low values of 10 and 20 paras were inscribed � and Y2 piaster (1 piaster= 40 para) to avoid. confusion and mistakes.

Several printings were made. The two printings of 1908 are on chalky paper, the first in deep green, the second in light green. Two more printings were made in deep green-in 1909 on thin ordinary paper and in 1910 on

thick ordinary paper. This Issue was used until the end of the operation of the Austrian Post Office in the Levant.

It is possible to form a collection containing the four printings, used on covers, of the more common values Yz, 1 and 1Yz piasters; but even this is extremely difficult.

The high values of both issues were mainly used for accountancy purposes on internal postal documents. The usage of these high values-5 piasters and up-to collect postage dues was extremely rare and is found almost only on parcel cards.

As mentioned, the 1902 Issue was valid to the end of 1908 -about six months lat�han the issue date of the 1908 set. Very few mixed frankings of both issues are known in the Levant, but none at all in the Holy Land.

SELECTED TAXED ITEMS The taxed mail will be presented according to the reasons of taxation. The Austrian Post Office is the only office of the forerunner period with enough taxed mail to allow this kind of presentation.

INLAND RATE FRANKING ON MAIL TO FoREIGN DESTINATIONS The cover shown in Figure 1 was mailed from London to Jaffa on September 29, 1906 franked 1d (inland rate) instead of 2Y2d (rate to other countries). In London it was charged by a British type hexagonal "T" handstamp, In Jaffa the tax was computed as follows: 11/z x 2 = 3d = 30 centimes= 6o para= 1Yz piasters. This last figure was marked in blue and postage pue stamps of 1 piaster and 20 para (of the 1902 Issue) were applied and cancelled on October 11, 1906.

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Another example bearing the 1Yz piaster postage due stamp of the 2nd Issue is shown in Figure 2. It is an inland Austrian 10 heller lettercard.

The Italian Post Office The Italian Post Office in Jerusalem operated for a relative short period. It was opened-for political rather than commercial reasons-on June 1, 1908, then closed for the Italian-Turkish war on October 1, 1911. It reopened on December 1, 1912 and closed finally along with all foreign post offices on September 30, 1914. During its operation this office handled mainly mail with Italian interest and did not gain much popularity. The volume of mail carried was therefore small compared to the other post offices.

Taxed mail by this office is extremely rare and very few items are known2; they are presented here. The postage due stamps used by the Italian Office in Jerusalem were the contemporary postage due stamps of Italy-no postage due. stamps were overprinted for use in the Levant.

The only recorded item taxed during the first period of

Figure 3 Cutout of a cover from Venice, Italy, charged 20c upon arrival in

Jerusalem, February L909.

Figure 4

and cancelled on arrival in Jerusalem on February 10, 1909, to indicate the postage due.

The figure 4 illustration shows a 1913 cover mailed on January 31 from Milan to Jerusalem franked 15c. The figure "2o" was marked in manuscript on the left side of the cover and a 2oc postage due stamp was applied and cancelled in Jerusalem on February 14. This cover was included in the "Manuella" Grand Prix exhibit, and if my memory does not fail me, a second

taxed cover, of similar postal characteristics, was also presented there.

At that time the rate for letters addressed from one Italian office to another was 15 centesimi for each 15 gr, therefore the letter appears to be properly franked. Overweight would have attracted a charge of at least 30c and not 2oc, thus the reason for taxation is nol clear.

Figure 5

Norman J. Collins comments that postage due stamps were also used to collect a poste-restante charge of 2oc per item. This may be a valid explanation for the charges on both items illustrated.

The last cover (Figure 5) was mailed from Chile to Jerusalem, where it arrived in January 1914. It bears a handstamp reading "T 12c". In Jerusalem a 5c and

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wc postage due stamps were applied on January 10 to collect the charge. This resulted in an over payment of 3 centesimi (at that time the centime and centesimi were of equal value), probably due to shortage in postage due stamps of 1 and 2 centesimi value.

The postcard in Figure 6 was recently offered in a Tel Aviv auction. Mailed from Laval, France to Jerusalem on June 7, 1906, it bears a 5c stamp. The sender crossed out the "Carte Postale" heading and wrote "Imprime" (printed matter) to make clear his intention to use the

reduced "printed matter" rate. On the back, the only inscription is the return address, and there is no other message on the front of the postcard, so it seems to be eligible for the reduced rate. In Jerusalem a charge of 30c was collected with a strip of three 10c postage due stamps cancelled on June 20, 1906. The postcard also bears a triangular French "T" handstamp.

The postcard rate at the time was

wc. Had this postcard been mailed

unfranked it would have had to be

charged zoc only ! If it had not been

accepted as "printed matter", the

charge of double the rate difference

would have been 10c and not 30c.

Hence the tax of 30c remains

unexplained.

References:

1. N.J. Collins, Norman J. "Palestine P.D.

Stamps on Cover during the Ottoman Period", Holy Land Postal

History #52 (1992) p. 602. 2. Steichele, Anton (English rev. Edition by N.J. Collins & L.

Dickstein), The Foreign Post Offices in Palestine 1840-1918 Vol. II, p. 218 (1991). •

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Taxed in Tel Aviv on 11 February 1949 by the four different 1st postage due stamps. •

The " Magic" of the Holocaust

Gregg Philipson, Austin, TX

Abracadabra! It is interesting to note that the phrase Abracadabra derives its meaning from the Aramaic/ Hebrew phrase

"Avra Kehdabra" meaning "I will create as I speak"!

Alois Kassner Illusionist and Magician "Zaubermeister" Alois Kassner (1887 - 1970) (Figure 1) was born near Breslau Germany in a town that is now Galow Poland. In 1907 Kassner was an assistant to the then famous magician Edward Janicken in Hamburg Germany. TI1ere he learned his first illusions and developed his act further through his own brilliant inventions. From 1911 on he worked independently and developed his own illusions show. After the First World War he teamed up with four assistants to create a powerful and very successful magic show. The highlight of the performance at that time was the disappearance of twelve people from the stage.

Following a suggestion of famous ringmaster Sarrasani in 1930, he created and performed an act that made his elephant Toto disappear from the stage (Figures 2, 7). During World War II Toto died and by some accounts it was a result of an Allied bombing raid.

Kassner escaped Nazi Germany, returning after the war and continuing his show in a much reduced form.

In 1954 he performed in the Berlin Friedrichstadtpalast for his farewell performance. Kassner was a member of both the International Brotherhood of Magicians and the Magic Circle.

Nazi Magician A German-born Nazi magician named Helmut Schreiber (1903 - 1963) aka Kalanag, seemed to suddenly come on the scene after World War II with an :mpressive and elaborate illusion show. Prior to the war, he had connections high in the Nazi regime and used political pressure to steal the illusion show from Kassner.

After the war, his reputation was destroyed within the

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magic community due to the confirmation late in his career of his sympathetic interaction with high-ranking members of the Nazi party, performing before Hermann Goring, Martin Bormann, and Adolf Hitler himself.

Posters Kassner's act was also known for the beautiful advertising posters created by the famed printer of lithographs from Hamburg and fellow Jew, Adolph Friedlander.

There are known to be more than 40 Kassner advertising posters in existence. Just prior to World War II, one of the most famous posters was of Kassner and Toto, the disappearing elephant.

Here is an example from my collection of a very RARE, attractive and historic illustrated advertising cover picturing Kassner (Figure 6). It was sent locally in Germany with Scott #399 single usage tied by slogan duplex cancel that translated to "Fight Against Hunger and Cold".

Printed on the reverse is the sensational poster art advertising "Kassner der Zauberer" (partly under backflap and measuring approximately 4.5" x 6.5") (Figure


Figure 2 Souvenir coin Seldom seen

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6). The magic poster art on this cover was printed and designed by Jewish poster printer Adolph Friedlander (1851 - 1904) of Hamburg Germany.

Friedlander Friedlander was a famed lithographer and publisher of posters. His print shop produced over 9,000 posters between 1872 and 1935, predominantly for artists, magicians, circus and vaudeville performers.

He first learned lithography at his father's shop in Hamburg. He received his formal training in Berlin and returned to Hamburg to operate independently in 1872. First concentrating on labels for businesses, he turned to poster printing to cater to the many artists and performers who operated near his business.

The Friedlander printing firm The firm operated from 1872 to 1935, specifically focusing on the manufacture of circus and magic posters. Founder Adolph Friedlander produced the highest quality color lithographs of his day. After his death the business was taken over by his sons Max, Otto, and Ludwig Friedlander. Due to the First World War and the following Depression, production was reduced from 400 to 100 posters per year.

As the Friedlander printing house was a German-Jewish owned and operated firm it was forced to close its doors in 1935 as a result of the anti-Semitic Nuremberg laws instituted by the Nazis beginning in 1933.

Other Magicians Another Jewish Magician Herbert Levin (1906 - 1977) aka "Nivelli, Magician of the Holocaust" survived Auschwitz and other concentration camps by being recognized as a famous Magician by Nazi SS Guards (Figure 8). He was commanded to perform his magic for the Nazis while he was a prisoner at various camps during the Holocaust. He said that "Magic saved my life" after he was liberated from a camp near Berlin in 1945. He came to the United States in 1947.

More information can be found in an extremely rare booklet called Nivelli, Magician of the Holocaust by William V. Rauscher, a copy of which is in my Jewish Magician collection (Figure 8).

Of course, the most widely known Jewish Magician is Erich Weiss (1874 - 1926) aka Harry Houdini (Figure 9). The United States Postal Service honored Houdini with


Figure 8 Herbert Levin

Figure 9 Harry Houdini

a 2002 commemorative stamp, Scott 3651, issued in New York City, NY. What makes this stamp really different is that it actually does a trick! Some say that the stamp is designed to reveal a hidden image when seen through a special UV viewer. In normal light, the stamp shows the colorful image of a youthful Houdini. Under the viewer, Houdini's image is shackled in chains. Viewed in normal ! ight again, the chains vanish! This is possibly a magical myth.

Abracadabra, it is truly divine magic that we have smvived and flourished amidst the black magic that always lurks in the darkness of evil minds . . . •


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Jewish Welfare Board Cards Dr. Cary Finder, [email protected]

WORLD WAR I

Figure 2 Hanukah

Passover Greetings

A. E. F.

Figure 3 Passover

Figure 1 Jewish Welfare Board logo

Figure 4 Purim AT THE START OF WWI the United States Government asked several organizations (mostly, but not entirely, religiously oriented) to help with the morale of the troops overseas and those at home. The Jewish Welfare Board (JWB) (Figure 1) was organized and joined that effort.

Since this was the first war the United States had been in with large numbers of soldiers overseas, one of the concerns was communication between the soldiers in Europe and the folks at home. Writing material was thought to be difficult to obtain in France so several of the organizations began printing and distributing cards to the soldiers. The YMCA and Knights of Columbus issued Christmas cards in 1918 (after the war had ended, but with over a million men still in Europe). The JWB issued cards for Hanukah which started at the end of November 1918.

During 1918 and 1919, the JWB issued and distributed Hanukah (Figure 2), Passover (Figure 3) and Purim (Figure 4) cards with many being kept as souvenirs. Examples of all of the cards sent from Europe still exist and most would have been free franked. All the cards bear a variation of the JWB logo.

WoRLD WAR II AND LATER Several of the WWI organizations, including the JWB, mobilized to provide the same support as in WWI. President Roosevelt caused the United Service Organization (USO) to be formed to provide synergy between those organizations. The JWB again issued holiday cards for the major Jewish holidays: Passover (Figures 5 - 8), Purim (Figures 9 - 10) Hanukah (Figures u-13) and the New Year (Figures 14 - 15). All of the holiday cards exist in multiple formats. These are known used from 1943 to as late as the 196o's. Some were mailed from a war zone; some from within the United States; sometimes free franked and sometimes with stamps. The annotation of"Stamp Box" means that the card had a box in the upper right corner of the back for a postage stamp rather than a free frank. Free franking was authorized to soldiers during WWII and the Korean War. Those cards with a stamp box were probably available between WWII and the Korean Vvar and after the Korean War.

Some of these cards have the artist's name, Sol Nedal, printed on the back of the cards. Most cards have some form

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There were four differently formatted Passover cards.

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There were three differently formatted Hanukah cards


PURIM

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There were only two differently formatted Purim cards: There is a copy of Purim in Figure 10 with a hand written inscription stating that: We got this from the Jewish Chapel at the Air Force Academy on April 3, 1969.

NEW YEARS

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Modern Israel Philately Adam Caplan, Cameron Park, CA

DOES ISRAEL PHILATELY STOP BEING INTERESTING AFTER THE 1950's? That seems to

be the perception but I am convinced otherwise. Collecting modern Israel philatelic

material is still interesting and challenging, while not damaging to your budget.

Extending beyond basic stamps is relatively inexpensive, challenging, and provides a way to

extend the life of your collection without having to expand beyond the borders oflsrael. Some

items to consider are modern perforation varieties (partial perforations and imperforate),

overprints, self adhesive stamps, vending machine stamps, prestige booklets, uncut press

sheets, and generic sheets.

ARDON WINDOWS

To start with, Jet's look at the stamps that were released in multiple perforation configurations. The first such example from the modern era that 1 am aware of is the Ardon Windows souvenir sheet from 1990. The normal sheet was issued with the 2 stamps perforated (Figure 1), but the philatelic service sent an imperforate version to all subscribers as a special gift(Figure 2). The imperforate version can be found regularly on eBay.

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PHILATELIC MusEuM IN TEL Av1v

The following year, the Israel Philatelic Service began raising funds for the Philatelic Museum in Tel Aviv. (Figure 3).As part of the fundraising efforts, they offered an imperforate version of the souvenir sheet to subscribers. In contrast to the earlier issue, this one is overprinted with a serial number.

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VoLUNTEERS FOR THE BRITISH ARMY IN WWII

The next interesting perforation variety occurred in 1995. In contrast to the previous issues, this one was not a philatelically contrived issue. The Volunteers for the British Army in WWII souvenir sheet can be found in two different perforation varieties.

Figure 4 llustrates the variety with an imperforate bottom portion, whereas the variety in Figure 5 is perforated right to the bottom edge. Both varieties are readily available on eBay and in dealer stock, but most people (including dealers) aren't aware that two varieties exist. FDC's can also be found with both varieties.

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For the World Stamp Exhibition-Israel 1998, the Philatelic Service started a new trend of including imperforate versions of the show souvenir sheets as part of the show catalog (Figure 6). TI1is was repeated in 2008 with the Jerusalem of Gold souvenir sheet (Figure 7).

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TELABUL 2004 STAMP SHOW Special mention needs to be made of the Telabul 2004 Stamp Show. Rather than a special version of a stamp being included in the show program, visitors to the show were able to design a stamp and purchase 2 sheets of stamps with their design.

Show organizers then chose one person's design to issue as a normal stamp. These personalized stamps are easily differentiated from the officially issued stamp in that they lack phosphor coating. And in contrast to the generic sheets of stamps, the personalized portion of the stamp is on the part that is actually valid for postage, rather than just on the label (Figure 8).

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IsRAEL PosT CoRPORATION

In 2006, Israel Post Corporation was formed. As an introduction, they once again gave subscribers a free gift. However, since the normal version of the souvenir sheet was already imperforate, the special gift was just overprinted with a serial number and embossed with the logo above the stamp (figure 10).

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Sheets of these stamps are extremely rare, and single stamps and tabs are also scarce. The sheets of stamps also include 1 label with printing information (Figure 9). •

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Society of Israel Philatelists Endown1ent Fund 2012 News

Listed below are Hall ofFamers for 2012. As no official Endowment Campaign was launched in 2012, these folks are especially dear to us and appreciated by us for their unsolicited contributions to the Endowment Fund. Their commitment to supporting the SIP and investing in the future of Holy Land philately is admirable and praiseworthy.

KING DAVID Level

Michael & Faye Bass

Reynold & Bette Paris

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Key Bank

Dick & Betty Barson

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As they celebrated the

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Palestine Small Town Postmarks Dr. Mel Richmond, z"l

Editor's note: Dr. Mel Richmond passed away about 3 years ago. He was an optometrist from Newton, Mass. Dr. Richmond was an avid collector of Palestine stamps and covers and a long time member of the SIP. He did valuable research on the 1948 Interim Period Jerusalem 1 issues and created the chart illustrating how to identify the Jerusalem

1 varieties. The chart was a feature in the Bale Palestine Catalog for many years.

He also collected Palestine small town cancellations and corresponded with David Dorfman z" L, author of the definitive 1985 catalog Palestine Mandate Postmarks. The covers shown are from Dr. Richmond's collection. Information on the scarcity rating is based on Dorfman's catalog with '}\" being common, "I" being rare and "V.R." being very rare. All the post offices had a number of different cancellations over the years. The number before the scarcity letter rating indicates the specific cancellation illustrated. Over a number of future issues, we will highlight examples from Dr. Richmond's extensive collection. The examples on CD were made available to me by Barry Hoffman.

Acre 2F - opened during the British Military adminisiration and remained open till the end of the Mandate.

Affula SE- opening date unknown.

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Athlith lG - A class B postal agency opened on August 1, 1923. •

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The Synagogue of Pees, Hungary

Gene Eissen, Raleigh, NC

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Hungary issued a sheet of 25 stamps with scenes and buildings from Pees, Hungary to celebrate the city being chosen as a European "Capital of Culture." One of the stamps depicts the Pees Synagogue.

The cachet on the cov�r shows a view of the synagogue taken from a pre-World War II postcard. The dock with the Hebrew words, " . . .it shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples . . . " Isaiah 56: 7, above it is at the top front of the synagogue.

Pees is the fifth largest city in Hungary. The Pees Synagogue was built in 1865 and consecrated in 1869. It was the third synagogue built in the city, and the only one to survive World War II. Prior to the war the synagogue had more than 4,000 members, but only about 450 survived the Holocaust.

The small Jewish community commemorates the 1944 deportation of the Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz on the first Sunday after July fourth.

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JNF Stamps- a collector's diary

YITZHAK RABIN {Rubitzov)

Moshe Kallmann, Kibbutz Lahav, Israel

EARLY YEARS Rabin was born in Jerusalem on March 1, 1922 during the British Mandate period to Nehe

inia and Rosa,

immigrants of the Third Aliyah, the third wave of Jewish immigration to Israel from Europe .. At the age of one, his family moved to Tel Aviv where he grew up. In 1940 he graduated with distinction from the Kadoori Agricultural High School and hoped to work as an irrigation engineer. Though he never pursued a degree he attended several courses in military strategy in the United Kingdom.

BEGINNING OF MILITARY CAREER In 1941, during his practical training at kibbutz Ramat Yohanan and under the influence ofYigal Allon, Rabin joined the Palmach section of the Haganah. The first operation he participated in was assisting the allied invasion of Lebanon, then held by Vichy French forces.

After the end of the World War II, the relationship between the Palmach and the British authorities became strained, especially with respect to the treatment of Jewish immigrants. In October 1945 Rabin was in charge of planning and later executing an operation for the liberation of interned immigrants from the Atlit detainee camp for Jewish illegal immigrants.

On Black Shabbat' Rabin was arrested and detained for 5 months. After his release he became the commander of the second Palmach battalion and in October 1947 he was promoted to the position of Chief Operations Officer of the Pal mach.

1948 ARAB-ISRAELI WAR During the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, Rabin directed Israeli operations in Jerusalem and fought the Egyptian army


1996 JNF Tribute Rabin and the «Burma" road to Jerusalem

in the Negev. At the beginning of the war he was the commander of the Hare! Brigade which fought along the Jerusalem to the coastal plain road, as well as around/ along the "Burma Road". He secured the southern side of Jerusalem by recapturing kibbutz Ramat Rachel. During the First truce (June 11 - July 8, 1948) he participated in the altercation between the IDF and Trgun on the beach of Tel Aviv as part of the Alta lena Affair'.

Rabin was the deputy commander of Operation Danny when the cities ofRamle and Lydda (Lod) were captured as well as the major airport in Lydda (Ben Gurion airport). Following the capture of the two towns, there was an exodus of the Arab population from Ramie. The population of Lod did not leave willingly. There was no way of avoiding the use of force and warning shots were fired in order to encourage the inhabitants to march the 10 to 15 miles to the point where they met up with the Jordanian Legion.

In 1949 he was a member of the Israeli delegation to


the armistice talks with Egypt that were held on the island of Rhodes. The result of the negotiations was the 1949 Armistice Agreements which ended the official hostilities of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. He was the most senior (former) member of the Palmach that remained in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).

SIX DAY WAR In 1964 he was appointed Chief of Staff of the lDF by Levi Eshkol. Since Eshkol did not have a lot of military experience, Rabin had a relatively free hand. Under his command the IDF achieved victory in the Six Day War in 1967. After the Old City ofJerusalem was captured by the IDF, Rabin was among the first to visit the Old City.

Following his retirement from the IDF, he became ambassador to the United States beginning in 1968 and remained for five years. During this period the United States became the major weapon supplier oflsrael. Rabin in particularly managed to get the embargo on the F-4 Phantom fighter jet lifted.

PRIME MINISTER PERIOD Following Golda Meir's resignation in April 1974, Rabin was elected party leader after defeating Shimon Peres. He was elected prime minister on 3 June 1974 and formed a coalition government. This government with a bare parliamentary majority held for a few months and was one of the few periods in Israel's history where the religious parties were not part of the coalition.

In foreign policy the major development at the beginning of Rabin's term was the Sinai Interim Agreement between Israel and Egypt signed on 1 September 1975. Both countries declared that the conflict between them shall not be resolved by military force but by peaceful means. Operation Entebbe was perhaps the most dramatic event during Rabin's first term in office.

On his order the IDP performed a long range undercover raid to rescue passengers of an airliner hijacked by terrorists and taken to Idi A min's Uganda. When Rabin took office, Israeli troops were still deep in Lebanon. Rabin ordered their withdrawal to a "Security Zone" on the Lebanese side of the border.

In 1992 Rabin was elected chairman of the Labor Party In the elections that year, his party, strongly focussed on the popularity of its leader, manage to win a clear victory

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over the Likud party, Rabin formed the first Labor led government in fifteen years supported by a coalition with Meretz, a left wing party and Shas a Mizrahi ultraorthodox religious party.

OsLo AccoRDS Rabin played a leading role in the signing of the Oslo Accords which created the Palestinian National Authority and granted it partial control over parts of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. Prior lo the signing of the

accords, Rabin received a letter from the PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat renouncing violence and officially recognizing Israel. On the same day, September 9, 1993, Rabin sent Arafat a letter officially recognizing the PLO. After the historical handshake with Yasser Arafat, Rabin said on behalf of the 1srael: "We have fought against you, the Palestinians, we say to you today in a loud and a clear voice, enough of blood and tears . . . enough,"

During his term in office, Rabin also oversaw the signing of the Israel-Jordan peace treaty in 1994. For his role in the creation of the Oslo Accords, Rabin was awarded the 1994 Nobel Peasce Prize along with Yasser Arafat and Shimon Peres.

AssASSINATION On the evening of 4 November 1995 Rabin was assassinated by a young radical right-wing Jew who opposed the signing of the Oslo Accords; Rabin had been attending a mass rally al the Malchei Yisrael Square (now Rabin Square) in Tel Aviv.

The YHzhak Rabin Center was founded in 1997 by an act of the Knesset to create "a Memorial Center for Perpetuating the Memory ofYitzhak Rabin. Many cities and towns in Israel have named streets, neighborhoods, schools, bridges and parks after Rabin.

End Notes

1. Operation Agatha (Saturday, June 29, 1946) sometimes called

Black Shabbat or Black Saturday because il began on the Jewish

sabbath, was a police and military operation conducted by the British

authorities in the British Mandate of Palestine. Soldiers and police

searched for arms and made arrests in Jerusalem, Tel-Aviv, and Haifa,

and in several dozen settlements; the semi-official Jewish Agency was

raided. About 2,700 individuals were arrested. The British objectives

included dissuading the Haganah and the Palmach, Lehi (Stern

Gang), and the frgun Tzvai Leumi, from undertaking further attacks

against British troops and officials, as well as possibly dissuading


a unilateral proclamation of a Jewish state, and bolstering morale.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Agatha.

2. The Altalena Affair was a violent confrontation that took place in

June 1948 between the newly formed Israel Defense Forces and the

Irgun, a Jewish paramilitary group. The confrontation involved a

cargo ship, Alta lena, captained by Monroe Fein and led by senior IZL

commander Eliyahu Lankin, which carried weapons and fighters for

the Irgun. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altalena_Affair. •

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B etween 1901 and 2011 the Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded 92 times to 124 laureates.

The awards went to 99 individuals and 23 organizations. The winners are selected

by a committee of five people chosen by the Norwegian Parliament in Oslo. Out of the

99 individual prizes, nine were awarded to individuals of Jewish extraction. Twenty-three

organizations received the award of which five were founded or co-founded by Jewish persons.

INDIVIDUAL WINNERS 1911

Figure 1 Netherlands Tobias Asser 1838- 1913

• Tobias Asser was a Dutch lawyer and legal scholar, who was honored for his role in establishing the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the first Hague peace conference (1899). A research institute

in the field of International and European Law is located in the Dutch Capital and is named after him.

Asser stamps: Scott catalogue Netherlands 800, Sierra Leone 1845a, Grenada-Grenadines 1773b.

1968

Alfred Fried was an Austrian journalist and pacifist, cofounder of the German peace movement. He was one of

Figure 2 Austria Alfred Fried 1864. 1921

the first to advocate for a world organization to assure world peace, an idea fulfilled by the League of Nations and later by the United Nations.

Fried stamps: Scott catalogue Austrial484, Togo 1658b,

St.Vincent 2220c.

French jurist, law professor and judge, Rene Cassin received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1968 for his work in drafting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948.

He was a member anq president of the European Court of Human Rights. He also headed the "Alliance Israelite" in France fighting for civil rights for Jews and was an active Zionist.

Cassin stamps: Scott catalogue France 8554, 2688·9, Argentina 679


Figure 3 France Rene Cassin 1887 . 1976


1973

German-born American political scientist, diplomat and businessman, Henry Kissinger received the Peace Prize in 1973 for his efforts in Terminating The Conflict In Vietnam.

Kissinger had a dominant role in American foreign policy during the Presidencies of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. His major achievement is considered the opening of diplomatic relations with China.

Kissinger stamps: Scott catalogue Guyana souvenir sheet, Congo 1 142,

St. Vincent 2219f

1978

PRNt�CIIIIWL n'Mlc l1Kl 11J)·It77)"l:lef'o")or'1rA1

Figure 5 Israal Menachem Begin

1913 - 1992

Israeli politician, Menachem Begin was born in Poland, leader of the militant group "Irgun," founder of the Likud party, member of parliament and prime minister (1977-1983). Begin shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Anwar Sadat for his Peace Treaty with Egypt which is still in force today.

Begin stamps: Scott catalogue Israel 1153, 1551, Dominica 1207d.


NOBEL LAUREATE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . . . .

American poliUCal oden1Jsl and S1al0$m011 Heruy Aff<ed l<lsaonge<. awwdod tho Nobel Pf'lle for Peace m 1973 With ! GUYANA $30000 ! le Due Tho of North V1etnam.

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Figure 4 Guyana Henry Kissinger

1923 -

Figure 6 Antigua & Barbuda Elie Wiesel

1928-

American writer, political activist, Holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in the Cause Of Peace, having sent a powerful message to humanity, according to the Norwegian Nobel Committee.

Wiesel stamp: Scott catalogue Antigua 1947, Canada 2271, Gabon 803h.


1994

Figure 8 Palestine Souvenir sheet 81 Yitzhak Rabin , President Clinton, Yasser Arafat

Figure 7 San Tome Principe souvenir sheet

Shimon Perez

Shimon Perez (born in Poland) and Yitzhak Rabin shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Yasser Arafat for peace talks with the Palestinians producing the Oslo Accords.

1923 -

Shimon Perez has occupied numerous positions in all Israeli governments since 1948, and was elected President in 2007, the first time a previous prime minister became president.

1995

Figure 10 British First Day Cover signed by Rotblat

Joseph Rotblat

1908 - 2005

Polish-born British physicist and political activist, Joseph Rotblat studied in Paris, France and Liverpool, England and joined prominent scientists in the Manhattan project.

He developed reservations about the uses of nuclear energy and organized the Pugwash Conferences aiming at limiting the growth of nuclear weapons. He received the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts towards nuclear disarmament.


Yitzhak Rabin was born in Jerusalem and had a successful military and political career until he was assassinated by a Jewish extremist unhappy with the Oslo Accords.

Figure 9 Israel Yitzhak Rabin

1922 -1995

Rabin stamps: Scott catalogue Israel l249, lsrael l608, Palestine souvenir sheet Bl.

ORGANIZATIONAL WINNERS

1965

Figure 11 United Nations

UNICEF Ludwik Rajchman

1881 - 1965

Ludwik Rajchman was a Polish physician who became the Head of the League ofNations Health Organization. After World War II he promoted the formation of a special organization concerned with the needs of children, which came to be called UNICEF with Rajchman as its first chairman.

Rotblat stamp: Scott catalogue Cuba 1668.


1977

Peter Benenson was a British lawyer of Russian Jewish extraction who founded the organization Amnesty International in 1961. For its work defending human rights around the world, the organization was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Stamp: Scott catalogue Belgium 1416.

1985

Figure 12 Belgium Amnesty International

Peter Benenson 1921 - 2005

Bernard Lown is an American cardiologist physician who together with a Russian physician, Evgheni Chazov organized the Internation Physicians For The Prevention Of Nuclear War, an organization which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Figure 13 Scott catalogue Hungary 2937 International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War

Bernard Lown

1995

Figure 14 Belgium Scott catalogue I-H6 Doctors Without Borders

Bernard Kouchner 1939 -

Bernard Kouchner, a French physician with a Jewish father and a Catholic mother, founded the organization Doctors Withour Borders. The organization provides medical assistance in war-torn regions and fights endemic diseases in developing countries. •


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President's Column

Hello, my name is Howard Rotterdam and I have the honor to have been selected as your new president. I would like to introduce myself to you and tell you a bit about my hopes for the Society for the forthcoming term. Before I do that I wish to thank several individuals. First, I want to thank my wife, Ellen, who has put up with my

,mishvagas, over the past 20 years. Anything that I have accomplished, both professional and philatelic, would have been impossible without her love, encouragement, and support. I want to thank our past president, Michael Bass, who has devoted so many hours to our Society and hobby and whose talent and vision have brought us into the 21st century. I am pleased that Michael has agreed to continue to work on our Internet project until it is completed and ready to roll out. Thanks must also go to Vicki Galecki help with the day-to-day operation of the Society has been indispensible over the past few years. Thank you to our editor, Don Chafetz, Don has done amazing work in redesigning the IP and in encouraging many, including myself, to contribute articles. I also wish to thank the following members for encouraging me to assume this leadership role and for assisting me in my philatelic goals: Howard Chapman, Ed Kroft, Stan Rafael, Morris Rosen, Bob Pildes, Nate Zankel, Ed Rosen, Richard Herman, Marty Cohen, Yacov Tsachor. A special thanks goes to Hank Stern for being my friend and mentor.

I like many of you started collecting stamps as a child. I was encouraged to do this by my father, who surprisingly was not a collector himself. I eagerly awaited each Saturday when we would go to a job printer on New

Lots Avenue in Brooklyn who had a side business as a stamp dealer. I would spend my allowance, birthday gifts, Chanukah gelt, etc. on those little red or purple pieces of gummed paper and slowly fill my Scott's minuteman album wither. I also accumulated assorted first day covers and an occasional plate block. Every once in a while, dad would take me into Manhattan to attend a show at the Amory or to go to the philatelic window at the main post office on 33rd street. I have a vague memory of FIPEX.


As I grew older, attended Stuyvesant high school, Queens College, started my career as a special education teacher; I let my interest in stamps wane. In the mid seventies, sparked by my membership in a very Zionist temple, I started a collection of Israeli stamps and joined the sip. I collected new issues and first day covers and over the years kept the collection current and slowly developed an interest in Palestine, interim, forerunners. As I approached retirement, my interests grew deeper into postal history and the collection of covers. My interest now centers on postage due. I also have developed an interest in joint issues and some topical collecting on various Judaic themes.

I have a small collection of early issue Netherlands postcards and collect Rotterdam cancellations. I joined the south Florida chapter of the society when I retired to Florida in 2003 and now function as its president. I look forward to our monthly meetings and am saddened to see so many of our chapters fold.

On a personal and level, Ellen and I have between us five children and most importantly six grandchildren, Evan, Rebecca, Meira, Samantha, Coby, and Ariella. Happily one or two of them show some interest in collecting. Sadly they all live in New York. We live in the emerald hills section of Hollywood, Florida. Professionally, I serve as the chair of the education department ofTouro College South in Miami Beach.

While in future columns I will discuss in greater detail my hopes and plans For the society they are centered on these areas: maintaining and expanding our membership, looking at ways to intensify and enhance our online presence, supporting our current chapters, and perhaps revitalizing some defunct ones, keeping us in good financial shape, revising our constitution to reflect the current realities of a 21st century organization, and continuing and expanding our cooperation with other societies.

As I write this on the eve of Rosh Hashanah, I wish all of our members a happy and sweet new year. L'shona Tova. a


SIP News

The Society of Israel Philatelists, Dallas Chapter, recently dedicated a framed tribute to the organization's late president, Arnold Paddock.

Attending the presentation were Paddock's family and members of the Israel Stamp Club.

by Mark lssacs Chaprcr meers the second Monday of each month ar I

Michael Paddock, SIP past president Walter J. Levy, and Dan Paddock are pictured in front of the tribute, which is permanently displayed in the conference room of the Aaron Family JCC.

p.m. ar Temple Sinai, 2475 West Atlantic Avenue, Delray Beach, Florida 33445. •

TORONTO/CA FIP Sheldon Soncnbcrg

BERKSHIRE HILLS Rabbi Harold I. Salzmann

Program: Show and Tell Chaprer meers rhe last Sunday of rhe momh ar Markovirs Scamp House 3 Shamrock Sr., Stockbridge, MA, at 10:30 am. •

CENTRAL,NJ Gary Theodore

Program: Israel's New Issues Chapter meers the 2nd Tuesday of each month (except July and August) ar 8 p.m. ar rhe Congregation B'nai Tikvah, 1001 Finneg�n's Lane, North Brunswick, NJ. •

CHICAGOLAND !Pf'SA Program: Forerunner Foreign

Destinations presented by Bob Pildes

Chapter meers the 4rh Thursday of the month (except August

New Members

and December) at Lincolnwood Public Library. '!000 \\1• Pratt A'·e., Lincolnwood, IL at -:IS p.m. For more information write Sam Fireman, PO Box 59106. Chicago. 1160659 . •

CLE\'ELA�D Howard S. Chapman

The ch:tprer meers the tlrH

Wednesday evening of each monrh {except July and Augu,r) ar Temple Tifereth Israel, Beachwood Branch at 7:30p.m. •

DALLAS Lawrence GoHman

Program: Israel: The Formative Years

Chapter meers 3rd i\londay. -,oo pm at the Conference Room. Jewish Commumr�· Cemer, -900 Norrha,·en Road, Dalla�. TX •

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DETROIT-OAK PARK Ken Torby

Program: • Holocaust Parr 2

Chaprer meets every 2nd Tuesday of the monrh ar the Oak Park Community Cenrer, 13600 Oak Park Blvd, Oak Park at 7:30 p.m. Philatelic bourse, trading, new

issues, interesting program. Everyone welcome. Contact Nathan Pdss, 24610 Seneca, Oak Park, MI 48237 (248) 548-1888 for information. •

GREATER HARTFORD Jeffrey Rudolph

MARVINSIEGELCHAPTER A Jan Doberman

Meers alternarivcly at the Young Israel Ohav Zcdek Synagogue, 6015 Rh•crdale Ave, Bronx, NY and The New City Jewish Center, Old School House Road, New Ciry, NY. Discussions, philatelic program each month. Everyone welcome. •

SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA

Ed Rosen

SEATTLE, WASHINGTON Jonathan Becker

\X'herever you place yourself in lsraei·Holyland-Judaica philately, an SfP Chapter can further your pleasure :.nd knowledge. •

SOUTH FLORIDA Howard Rotterdam

Program: Ship'� Mail


VANCOUVER, BC CANADA Ed Kroft

Exciting collecting for collccrors of Israel, Holyland, Judaica from beginners to advanced.

AFFILIATED CHAPTL:.RS

CAPETOWN A. Katzcf

JOHANNESBURG Brian Gruzd

Programs: • Dec I - Larkes and Schnapps

Chapter meers 1st Monday of every monrh in the Board Room of rhe Waverly Synagogue at 7:30 pm.

ST.LOUIS Alan Barasch

CHERRY HILL Ronald Zukin

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STUDY GROUPS

J.N.F. STUDY CIRCLE Howard S. Chapman

PALESTINE STUDY GROUP Irwin Marh

HOLOCAUST STUDY GROUP Dr. Justin R. Gordon

C.A.S.P.I.P. STUDY CIRCLE A.Karz

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The National Farm School

Famous Farmers of America Richard Barson, Beachwood, OH, Donald A. Chafetz

I received the cover front shown in Figure 1 from Richard Barson with no story. My interest was aroused when T noted it commemorated a Rabbi's founding of an agriculture school in Doylestown, Pennsylvania in 1896. T was interested in learning more about the Rabbi and his school if it still existed.

A quick Google search revealed numerous articles and even a line to the school now called Delaware Valley College with and enrollment of 2,ooo students and offers 25 study majors.

The following biographical sketch is from the American Jewish Archives, http://americanjewisharchives.org aia FindingAids/JosephKrauskopf.htm.

Joseph Krauskopf was born 21 January 1858 in Ostrowo, Prussian-Posen to Hirsch Krauskopf, a local lumber merchant. After his father's death, Krauskopf emigrated to the United States in 1872 to join an half-brother, only to discover he had died. Krauskopf found work for a tea merchant in New Jersey until he entered the first class of Hebrew Union College (HUC). He was recommended to Isaac Mayer Wise by the Christian widow of a newspaper editor, who noted that "he has all the Christian virtues."

While rooming with Henry Berkowitz, the two created a Jewish youth periodical entitled The Sabbath Visitor. This interest in education was to remain an interest for both in their post-HVC careers. Following ordination, Krauskopf accepted a pulpit in Kansas City, Missouri. He remained in Kansas City from 1883-1887 when he became the rabbi al the Philadelphia congregation of Keneseth Israel. Krauskopf was an extremely popular rabbi in both congregations-at Kansas City, his sermons were regularly published and growth in Philadelphia led to the building of a new synagogue.


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He was an avid supporter of radical reform in Judaism. In 1885, Krauskopf wrote to Rabbi Kaufman Kohler of Beth El in New York in order to propose a meeting between reform-minded rabbis. As a result of this letter, Krauskopf served as vice-president at the 1885 conference where the Pittsburgh Platform was written. Krauskopf implemented many reforms in his personal congregation including Sunday worship.

Krauskopf's interests extended well beyond Reform Judaism. In 1884, Krauskopf founded the Poor Man's Free Labor Bureau to help indigents find employment. .Later, in 1894, Krauskopf received a visa via a special Congressional resolution and traveled to Russia to examine the problem of mass immigration of Eastern European Jews. While in Europe, Krauskopf met with author Leo Tolstoy who said that the key to Jewish survival was in agriculture. Impressed by a model farm :>l-hool in Odessa, Krauskopf decided to start a similar program in the United States. In Doylestown, Pennsylvania, Krauskopf began the National Farm School, and supported it through lecture tours. He viewed it as "one fo the best means of securing safety and happiness to the sorely afflicted of our people."

Krauskopf was also a leader in the Jewish Publication Society. He died in Atlantic City, New Jersey on 12 June 1923 . •


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317 I P Repri nts 46-47 Feb 1995 · Dec 1996 I $36 JC I $433.00 Hebrew letter Censor M a rks · Simmons & Pearl $15.00

IP Reprint:s 48-49 Feb 1997 · Dec 1998 l Interim Period Postage Stamps of Israel : 318 S36.X $434.00 Mar-l ul 1948 • Forsher $20.00

IP Reprints 50-51 Feb 1999- Dec 2000 I Postal History of the Transition Period in lsrael 1948, Vol II - Part 1 -319 $36.00 $435.00 Shimony, Rimon, Karpovsky NO DISCOUNTS $55.00

IP Reprints 52-53 Feb 2001 - Dec 2002 Postal History of the Transition Period i n lsrael l948, Vol II - Part 2 -

320 536.00 $436.00 Shimon, Rimon, Karpovsky NO DISCOUNTS $60.00

IP Reprints 54- 55 Feb 2003 - Oec 2004 Israel Definitive Stamps- Specialized Cotologue, 1982 & 1983 · Wal lach

321 $36.00 5437.00 NO DISCOUNTS $10.00

IP Reprints 56-57 Feb 2005 - Dec 2006 Postal History of the West Bank of Jordan 1948-1967 Volume I - Wallach

322 $36.00 $438.00 NO DISCOUNTS $10.00

I Haifa and Jaffa Postmarks of the Palestine Mandate -�00 BOOKS $439.00 Goldstein & Dickste i n $15.00

I The Doar lvri Issue -Printings & Settings Handbook 5habtai NO 401 Palestine Mandate Postmarks - Dorfman $18 00 $440.00 .ISCOI r $150.00

I Postal History of the Transition Period 1n lsrael 1948, Vol IlL Israel 402 Tabs of Israel - Rozman 53.00 $441.00 Foreian Postal Unks- Sh amir & Siegel NO IJJ5COUI\ TS $22.00

Postal For ms of Palestine Mandates - The Phila telic Pesach Hagada in Hebrew · R1mer Published by Israel 403 Hochheiser 58.00 $442.00 Phiatehc Federation NO DISCOUNTS $11.00

Return to the land - the Chalfenge of RebUilding Israel· Exploring $9.50 us Pales�ne Mandate Issues of 1921·1948: History through Stamps- Marty Zelenietz - single copy prices - special $11 Can/Mex

404 Crown Agents • Collins $7.00 $443.00 q t y prices available. NO DISCOUNTS $161ntl Government of Palestine Post Ottice

405 Ordinance of 1930 $11.00 $500.00 BOOKS ON CD Tel Aviv Postmarks of the Palestine Mandate

406 Groton $6.00 $529.00 The Maxim um Cards Stamp Information Folders- Morgins�n - CD $15.00

407 Plate Blocks & Tabs - Levinson $9.00 $530.00 The Flying Camel · L evant Fairs of Mandate Palestine · Gr o t en - CD $20.00

R�turn to the Land - the Challenge of Rebuilding Israel -Marty Zelenietz 408 Basic Israel Philately- Simmons $9.00 $543.00 ··� CD· NO DISCOUNTS $5.00

Postal Stationery of Palestine Mandate- Sub-Total

409 Hochheiser $8.00 u s ... SJvw<ng & Hlmd"ong. $3 50 per • ., 410 Salad - Ben David 56.00 lntem;ltoonal Sh1pptng & Han<lflng - 58.00 per o1em 411 Doar lvri Issue of Israe l • Rothman & Tsachor $9.00 Total Amount Due

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Return to the Land:The Challenge of Rebuilding Israel

Exploring History Through Stamps

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Marty Zelenietz

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